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I was chatting with a friend about professional development recently, and he brought up something that really irks both of us—nonprofit executives that are reluctant to provide mentorship or even to start a conversation with junior staff about their career goals. If I invest in this rising star, the thinking goes, then she will go get a better job and my organization will lose her talent. Our career development efforts will be wasted. This attitude does no one any good. Here's why.

Equal Footing is a new data portal that harnesses the power of philanthropic data with a filter that looks explicitly at grant-making investments that seek to improve women’s economic development in three post-conflict countries in central Africa: Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.